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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:51:03 -0500
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Subject: Re: View creation error on specific DB
From: Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>
To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" <user@couchdb.apache.org>
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Nope, the -S parameter has never done what it claims.

B.

On 21 January 2013 12:48, Donal Simmie <donal.simmie@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did try your approach Paul before I saw Robert's follow up and the same
> thing happened.
>
> The error log is here in case sheds any light:
>
> http://pastebin.com/nFxU80FG - it doesn't for me ;)
>
> This time I was using a simpler emit than the second param being doc and
> wouldn't generally emit the entire doc but thanks for link to that article
> Dave.
>
> This was the view code I used this time:
>
> function(doc) {
>   emit(doc.user.screen_name, doc.user.id);
> }
>
> Robert as for the view stack size setting not being a useful setting, it is
> suggested here
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Performance#JavaScript_View_Server that this
> can be altered if there a problem in the logs that indicates stack size
> might be an issue. Is this still valid advice?
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Well ain't that a knock in the teeth. Never seen that note before so it
>> must've been something lots of people were mistaking that API for.
>>
>> I've got no idea how to fix this then.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Paul, you know that -S doesn't change the stack size just the size of
>> > stack fragments. It's a useless setting afaict;
>> >
>> > from
>> >
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SpiderMonkey/JSAPI_Reference/JS_NewContext
>> >
>> > "The stackchunksize parameter does not control the JavaScript stack
>> > size. (The JSAPI does not provide a way to adjust the stack depth
>> > limit.) Passing a large number forstackchunksize is a mistake."
>> >
>> > B.
>> >
>> > On 21 January 2013 11:39, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > Sounds like a stack size issue. Try setting -S to something largish
>> > > (10485760 or so) on the couchjs command line in your default.ini
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Donal Simmie <donal.simmie@gmail.com
>> > >wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> As an update I have tried numerous approaches to attempt to
>> > fix/workaround
>> > >> this problem:
>> > >>
>> > >> 1. Compacting the database.
>> > >> 2. Replicating to a local copy of the DB and retrying view creation.
>> > >> 3. Dumping DB contents to JSON with dump.py and loading into another
>> DB
>> > >> with load.py
>> > >>
>> > >> None of these worked.
>> > >>
>> > >> After downloading the couchdb-python library I added the python view
>> > server
>> > >> to Futon and ran view code in python and this does fix the problem.
>> > >>
>> > >> So if the problem is with the javascript view server, does this help
>> in
>> > >> identifying what the issue might be and how I could fix it?
>> > >>
>> > >> E.g.
>> > >>
>> > >> Bad entry in config file,
>> > >> Corrupt document(s),
>> > >> Something else??
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Donal Simmie <donal.simmie@gmail.com
>> > >> >wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> > I am getting an os error on view creation for a certain database.
>> All
>> > my
>> > >> > views for other databases are working but I cannot create any on
>> this
>> > one
>> > >> > without it failing.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > The error message is: os_process_error,{exit_status,0}}
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I was trying a proper view but even this basic one is broken:
>> > >> >
>> > >> > function(doc) {
>> > >> >   emit(1, doc);
>> > >> > }
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Note:
>> > >> > I have been using Futon for view creation.
>> > >> > The all documents view is fine and documents themselves can be
>> viewed.
>> > >> > I altered the default configuration file by adding a compactions
>> > section
>> > >> > with the following key/value pair: -default: [{db_fragmentation,
>> > "70%"},
>> > >> > {view_fragmentation, "60%"}, {from, "23:00"}, {to, "04:00"}].
>> > >> > The DB in question contains 3.6 GB of data.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Version: 1.2
>> > >> > Os: Mac OS X 10.8.2
>> > >> >
>> > >> > The trace in the log file is available here:
>> > >> http://pastebin.com/AdrJ6jeB
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Any suggestions please?
>> > >> >
>> > >>
>> >
>>